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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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Fraud email example:
From: "From:Mrs Amina .B. Rashid" <mrsamina_bello02@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:44:16 +0700
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE
From: Mrs.Amina.Bello.Rashid
Address : United Nation Refugee , Thailand
Tell +66 (0) 46428945
Attention: The Managing Director
Dear Sir,
I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously. I am asking for your assistance after I have gone through a profile that speaks good of you. I want to find out if it's possible for you to deal with individual as to investment.
Before I proceed futher, I seek your permission to introduce myself to you. I am Mrs Amina Bello, an iraqi refugee, the wife of Late Dr (Mr) Bello Rashid from Basra Iraq, one of the personal aid to the president of Iraq who was arrested and shot to death on 26th July 2004 by the American Soldiers In our family home in Basra during the War in my country which took many life.
Prior to this last serious crisis that is still ravaging in my country,which recently led to misfortune of our government and my late husband position as the personal aid to the president, we were able to come over here in Thailand ,we inherited the sum of US$16 million. My husband acquire the fund through his secret Crude Oil deal with the Former IRAQI Government, which was secretly lodge in a trunk box (Consignment), and was able to safe guard the fund with a very good diplomatic contact from my country to Thailand where the money was deposited with a Private Financial Firm as materials of Inheritance which make me and my only surviving Son to come over to plan our life.
But due to our current refugee status and other reasons we are faced with the dilemma of investing the money in Thailand that is why we decieded to look for a foriegn partner who will assist us in moving the fund to his country for our investment plans.
I have decided to contact you because your country is an investment friendly country. Please kindly guide and assist me in making the right investment since I am also interested in buying a residential property as I and my Son will be moving over there as soon as every thing regarding technical and logictics details is worked out and ascertained to our respective satisfaction.
However, upon your acceptance to work with us as our investment partner, you can contact me with my private telephone number or e-mail for more details. Modalities on how the fund will be transfer will be convey to you once we have established trust and confidence in eacth other.
At the successful transaction, I am ready to give you a good negotiable percentage for your assistance,or better still commit it into viable Joint venture projects,be assured that you stand no risk of any kind as the funds belong to me and my only survived Son. As soon as I get your consent, we will quickly move this fund to your country for investment .
I am here with my only surviving Son Salim, I strongly believe that associating with you to embark on this and other business ventures will derive a huge success here after.
Thanks in anticipation of your kind cooperation
Looking forward to hearing from you
Yours Sincerely.
Mrs Amina .B. Rashid
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